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Find the answers to all those questions you were too embarrassed to ask in Sunday School. Welcome to Weird Stuff in the Bible, where we explore scripture passages that are bizarre, perplexing or just plain weird. Hosted by Luke Taylor.
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Expressing yourself can be a pain. There's so many different art styles and types, because no two people are alike. Whether you draw, write, paint, perform music, photograph, or any other type of crazy fiasco, I've got you. Because I may not know about all the arts, but I can help you find your expression and inspiration within. So we're gonna have fun, live a little, and make some weird stuff.
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A Holistic Twin Peaks Podcast: Annie Malone and Jessica Baxter analyze each episode of the seminal TV series in the context of the whole.
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Welcome to Daughter and Dad. A podcast where we explore stuff that we think is weird. So if you think stuff can be weird you might like this! Special guests will likely be our family members as they like weird stuff too. Cover art photo by https://www.instagram.com/christopher__burns/
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We chat about dog training, tips and other dog nonsense and see where we end up. New episodes will be released weekly on Fridays at noon MST.
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Naaman the Syrian had it going on. A great job, a great reputation, all the money he needed- oh, and he had leprosy. In those days, this was a death sentence. In those days, a great job, a powerful position, favor with kings, all the money in the world, none of it meant anything if you had leprosy- because if you had leprosy, you were gonna die. De…
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Today’s lesson is too important to wait. And I almost didn’t do it. Because these verses that we’re studying today are going to come up again in the book of Enoch, and I’m planning on starting a book of Enoch series here on the podcast early next year. And so you might hear some of this information repeated again in a few months, and I almost didn’…
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There is a parable which I believe is not technically a parable- I believe it’s a true story- called The Rich Man and Lazarus. Jesus tells this story in Luke 16. And there’s a lot of strange things you could point out about this story, but what always sticks out to me is where Lazarus goes when he dies in this story. Luke 16:22 So it was that the b…
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The devil really really doesn’t want you to listen to today’s episode. Because this is going to blow the door wide open on one of Satan’s schemes that he uses to try and make us ineffective as Christians. But, I’ll also tell you how to overcome it. Last year, one of my pastor friends who was preaching through the book of Daniel and came across the …
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It was a dark and moonless night when King Saul, cloaked in fear and despair, wandered the desolate wilderness of Mount Gilboa. His once-mighty heart had grown heavy, for the Lord had turned silent—no dreams, no prophets, no answers. His enemies, the Philistines, loomed at his doorstep, and without divine guidance, Saul felt utterly forsaken. Despe…
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I’ve been doing this podcast for about a year now and I can’t believe I haven’t done an episode about this yet. Today, we’re going to be talking about territorial spirits. And that phrase refers to the fact that spirits are assigned to certain sectors of the earth. Many Bible-readers aren’t aware of this little tidbit about how the spiritual realm …
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We’re going to continue our foray into demonology today, and we’ll wrap up this story of Jesus and the demoniac of Mark 5. If you’re not familiar with this story, it’s the guy who lived among the tombs and could break chains with his bare hands. This is the guy who said “I am Legion, for we are many.” There were potentially thousands of demons with…
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The Day Satan Called: A look back with Bill Scott on the Dos and Don’ts of Demonic Deliverance
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It was the week before Halloween in the fall of 1988 when Bill Scott picked up the phone at his job at a Christian radio station and his life was never the same. What follows is a story of demonic possession, deliverance, and a long list of what to do and what NOT to do when standing up to the powers of darkness. I’ve been doing a series on the abi…
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Welcome back to Demonology class. I didn’t have this class in the school of ministry that I attended for three years. I’ve never heard of a Bible college offering a class in exorcism. I’ve never heard of a seminary giving a degree in demonology. And yet, when Jesus gave His disciples a job to do, He said to preach the Kingdom, heal the sick, raise …
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I remember being a younger Christian and sharing a meal with a couple of older pastors, who got to talking about a Bible story of demon possession. It may have been the one we’re in today, actually. And one of them just mentioned, quite offhandedly, that of course, demon-possessed people in the Bible were actually just dealing with sickness and men…
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I said it on the first episode of this podcast: if you’re a modern Christian living in a westernized country, you’re weird. You’re living in a very weird time and weird place in human history. Because we are taught to accept rational, scientific explanations for things. We’re told that if you can’t find it in a test tube or with a telescope or see …
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The Bible has some hard commandments in it. “Do everything without worrying or complaining.” “Forgive 70x7 times.” “Be content in all circumstances.” “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wifi.” “Thou shalt not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.” I’m sure I’m not the only person out there who struggles with these. OK, maybe that last one was ki…
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The raising of Lazarus. The 10 Plagues in Egypt. Walking on Water. Feeding the 5,000. There are lots of miracle in the stories that are pretty well-known, even by non-Christians. Most of them are done by Jesus, but Moses and Elijah have their fair share as well. But there’s a miracle in II Kings 6 that’s just a bit harder to categorize. It’s not ne…
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Most of us would agree that God and Satan are about as different as you can get. That they are such polar opposites that it would be virtually impossible to confuse one with the other. That it would be tantamount to heresy to try to compare the two. And yet, there’s a mystery to the identity of the figure called the “God of this World” in II Corint…
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On episode 33 of Really Weird Stuff, we're discussing Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Two - "The stars turn and a time presents itself." This episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and directed by David Lynch. It originally aired May 21, 2017 on Showtime, along with Part One. This episode is best known for the return of Laura Palmer. 25 ye…
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Last week I was discussing a weird story about Moses in Exodus 4, I came across another pretty odd verse that generates some confusion among Christians: Exodus 4:21. Now, I didn’t want to stop and analyze that verse because it would have taken me on a rabbit trail, and I was already trying to talk about a different weird thing, and I would have had…
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So, a funny thing happened on the way to Egypt after Moses spoke to the burning bush. Something you have probably never heard about. Even if you have read it before, this is such a bizarre paragraph of Scripture that you probably just read right on through without stopping to dwell on it. When most of us tell the story of Moses, we start with his o…
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When I first got into ministry, I didn’t know what to do with I Kings 13. I knew God must be trying to communicate something from this story, but I couldn’t figure out what. So many things didn’t line up with my preconceptions. You have a couple of prophets in this story. Now, in almost every Old Testament story with a prophet of God, they are the …
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I few weeks ago I received one of the strangest questions I had ever had sent to me: could the Apostle John still be alive? Now, I probably would have shrugged it off except within an hour, I had a second person ask me the same question. Now, I have never heard this question posed before. I had never had this thought cross my mind before. And yet t…
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So, something really strange happened when Jesus was being arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. This is the night that Jesus was put on trial, and the next day He was nailed to the cross. So there’s a lot going on. it’s a very heavy section of scripture. And there’s one detail that’s only recorded in one of the four Gospels. Mark 14:51 and 52 say …
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John 5 has one of the most bizarre verses in the Bible. I’m talking about verse 4 of that chapter. This verse is so bizarre, it doesn’t even appear in a lot of versions of the Bible. Go open up your Bible and check right now; it might just say verse 1, verse 2, verse 3, verse 5. It’s like your Bible forgot to count. But actually, some versions just…
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What happened when you got in the water at your baptism? Guess what? You didn’t just get wet. You made a proclamation of faith- not just to any humans who witnessed your baptism- but a proclamation of faith that reverberated throughout the entire spiritual realm. And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’re in the right place, because thi…
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Jonah chapter 2 is one of the weirdest chapters in the entire Bible. I mean, think about it: at the end of Jonah 1, he gets swallowed by a giant fish in the Mediterranean Sea. At the beginning of Jonah 3, he’s spat back out on dry land. In between those events, Jonah lifts up this prayer or lament about his situation to heaven, and that’s what chap…
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Steph and Sienna are burned out and want you to know about it. This is the second episode in a series we're calling MIW Unfiltered, where we will be talking about the elements that make this industry challenging. The topics in this series need to be prominent conversations in the dog world, far more than they currently are. We actually just stay on…
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Night of the Living Dead. World War Z. Resident Evil. The Walking Dead. And… Matthew chapter 27. What do all of these have in common? They all contain zombies. Now, if you don’t believe me that the Bible has some zombies in it, then explain this verse to me. Matthew 27 is about the crucifixion. Now, don’t worry, I’m not about to claim that Jesus wa…
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Steph and Sienna are burned out and want you to know about it. This is the first episode in a series we're calling MIW Unfiltered, where we will be talking about the elements that make this industry challenging. The topics in this series need to be prominent conversations in the dog world, far more than they currently are. Intro and a deep dive on …
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Entire books have been written about the thorny theological issue I want to talk about today. James chapter 2. At face value, James 2 seems hard to reconcile with the rest of the New Testament. That’s because the rest of the New Testament pretty clearly teaches this doctrine of salvation by grace through faith not of works. That’s a direct quote, a…
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On episode 32 of Really Weird Stuff, we're discussing Twin Peaks: The Return, Part One - "My log has a message for you." This episode was written by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and directed by David Lynch. It originally aired May 21, 2017 on Showtime. This episode is best known for being the long-anticipated, much-rumored third season of Twin Peaks…
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Let’s tackle one of the questions today that no Sunday School teacher wants to get: are Christian women supposed to wear “head coverings” according to I Corinthians 11? Because when you read it very simply and plainly, it certainly feels like they should. I Corinthians 11:5 says But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishon…
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What if someone came to a pastor and said, “How do I go to heaven?” Should the pastor tell him how to go to heaven? What kind of pastor wouldn’t tell someone who came to him and asked how to go to heaven how to go to heaven? That’s a pastor’s dream: for people to come to him and ask him how to go to heaven. That’s why we go to Bible schools and Bib…
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So I’ve done 25 episodes now about Weird Stuff in the Bible, but I haven’t talked about Jesus too much yet. And I really need to, for two reasons. One, because everything in the Bible centers around Jesus. And two, because Jesus is weird. Now, I don’t mean that to be disrespectful. I just mean that He was odd. If you don’t think Jesus is weird, I d…
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The Day of Pentecost had a lot going on; it probably had more going on than you even realized. This is one of the most significant stories in the Bible; it’s the birth of the church, recorded in Acts 2. And it says this in verses 1-4 of that chapter When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly…
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When I was in the book of Enoch a couple episodes ago, something caught my attention. I was reading something from the book of Enoch’s chapter 15. I didn’t read the entire chapter on that episode, but I did read through it as I was doing my research, and there was a very interesting passage there about the spirits of the Nephilim. Enoch chapter 15 …
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Steph and Sienna recap the trainer course from last week. Sienna goes through her notes and we chat about some of the trainer course topics. Sienna shows immense self control while dealing with Steph. Steph displays a bomb ass example of imposter syndrome. Intro and nonsense: right from the start! Recap begins: 3:35 Do you like discount codes? I ha…
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So on this podcast, we’ve tackled the mysterious subject of Genesis 6 a few times when “the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.” That’s actually a direct quotation from that chapter. And it’s come up a lot on this podcast because it’s a podcast about weird stuff in the Bible, and t…
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There is a lot of controversy around this Book of Enoch: Should Christians read it or not? Some get confused about whether it should be considered scripture- and if it isn’t, whether Christians are allowed to read it. So on the past few episodes, I’ve established that even though it’s not canonical scripture, the authors of the Bible did indeed rea…
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On episode 31 of Really Weird Stuff: A Twin Peaks Podcast, we're diving headlong into the 1992 cinematic prequel, "Fire Walk With Me", written by Robert Engels and David Lynch, and directed by David Lynch. It was released to theaters August 28th, 1992 and flopped HARD. It had premiered at Cannes earlier that year, to the bafflement of audiences and…
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Today Steph and Sienna talk about the impact a dog's disability could have on training, and how training could help improve the quality of life for dogs that may need additional skills in the future as their communication skills or physical needs change. Also, Taylor released a new album. Dog Stuff: right from the start! Sienna's album review: 37:1…
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In Jude 14-16, he quotes from a prophecy of Enoch: It says 14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and …
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Today Steph and Sienna make comparisons between elements of the dog world and various MLM's. There were notes, we got serious. Sienna has passionate opinions about shoes, and we talk about internet useage. Timestamps - Dog Nonsense: right from the start! Sienna's shoe rant: 44:15 Additional Nonsense: 47:15 Do you like discount codes? I have one for…
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I’ll have this debate with people about the rapture of the church, and I will hear this response all the time: the rapture isn’t biblical. I’ll even see it in the comments from today’s episode: the rapture isn’t biblical. And these days, my response when I hear it is always the same thing. If you want to tell me that the rapture is not biblical, th…
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Today Steph and Sienna discuss what goes into a proper training foundation for your dog, and also what doesn't. We also discuss what 'clickbait' actually means, the likelihood of us making it through a podcast without our favourite words, and the upcoming trainer seminar. Timestamps - Brief Nonsense: 1:15 Dog Stuff: 2:37 Additional Nonsense: 49:44 …
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Genesis 5 is one of those chapters people tend to read through pretty quickly. It’s a genealogy chapter. It’s a list of names: so and so the son of so and so, so and so begat so and so. Not only that, it’s a list of names of people from Adam to Noah. Why do we need a genealogy of people from Adam to Noah? The genealogy is gonna reset at Noah anyway…
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We are pressing forward in the book of Jude today. As I’ve said before, Jude is kind of like the Bible’s junk drawer. Everyone has a junk drawer at their house; it’s full of random objects that you just aren’t sure where else to put them, so you throw them all into one drawer and you call it your junk drawer. That’s how Jude is. It’s like a collect…
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Ever wondered why we called this 'Make it Weird'? If you missed the 60 sec explanation on Tiktok 2 yrs ago, this is the (much) longer version of that. In this episode, Steph and Sienna discuss what generalization is and what you could do to better generalize some of your dog's behaviours. We also hear how Sienna's construction era is going, and def…
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If you don’t know Balaam’s story, you are behind the 8-ball. Most Christians don’t really know who Balaam is, which is a shame, because he is one of the most-referenced characters in the Bible. Balaam’s name comes up 59 times in Scripture. In comparison, Mary is only mentioned 14 times. And yet, every Christian knows who Mary is. But not many know …
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“I just wanted to look.” That’s probably what Balaam was saying when he went with the princes of Moab. They kept offering him money to go up on this mountain and curse the Israelites. They wanted him because Balaam was a prophet for hire. Now, he was a real prophet in the sense that he could genuinely hear from God and speak God’s messages. But he …
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What are training mechanics?! Stay tuned while Steph and Sienna explain. Plus some exciting news about Felony!
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God is not schizophrenic. OK? I just wanna put that out there first. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. God does not contradict Himself. And if He looks like He is, the problem is on our end, not His. Amen? OK. I just feel like I have to establish that because Numbers 22 starts the story of Balaam, and God in this story, Balaam does exac…
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